You can only stay on top if you continue to develop. In order to increase our performance and expertise continually, Oevermann has placed special emphasis on research and development over the years.

Employees of our company participate in the committees of the German Road and Transport Association, the German Concrete and Construction Technology Association, construction industry organisations and the German Asphalt Association. The direct flow of information provided here is a win win win situation: for our clients, for the research facilities and for the expertise of our company. For us, research and development are highly significant. Many projects are carried out in close co-operation with universities, e.g. with the Ruhr University in Bochum, the University of Hanover and the Technical University of Münster. Many of the insights gained in this process are to be seen later on, in regulations and rulebooks. Particular issues are investigated, too, in a wide range of degree dissertations. We put scientific research results and developments into direct practice for our clients and, in this way, ensure their crucial advantage in the marketplace.

You will find some examples here:

• Noise-reducing road surfaces
  
   
         -  double-layer open-pored ZWOPA asphalt,                      hot on cold laying
          -  noise optimised SMA La bituminous asphalt
          -  noise optimised LOA 5 road surfacing
          -  single coat and single layer washed concrete


• Environmentally compatible use of construction materials requiring special attention for water management issues, such as bituminous and hydraulically dominant bituminous foundation strata
• Development of testing methods such as the average falling weight apparatus for testing the payload of layers without binding agents
• Concrete tower construction with external pre-stressing